Errol Brown

Errol Brown (12 November 1943-6 May 2015) was a British-Jamaican singer and songwriter who was the frontman of the pop group Hot Chocolate during the 1970s and 1980s. Brown a notable supporter of the UK Conservative Party, performing at a party conference in the 1980s.

Biography
Errol Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 12 November 1943, but he moved to the United Kingdom in 1955, at the age of twelve, and he became a singer during the late 1960s. He recorded a version of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" in 1969 with the help of a band called Hot Chocolate, and Rak Records picked up the band due to its success. The band would become most famous for its 1975 hit "You Sexy Thing", and Brown became well-known in Britain. Brown was one of few pop musicians to be a public and proud supporter of the UK Conservative Party, appearing at the Conservative Party conference after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister and treating delegates to a rendition of the late Lennon's "Imagine". In 2003, he became a member of the Order of the British Empire for his services to pop music in Britain, and he died of liver cancer in his Bahamas home in 2015.